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PM throws down the gauntlet Challenges opposition to confidence vote on Sunday after PASOK calls for censure of Alogoskoufis In a rare display of parliamentary machination, the prime minister yesterday turned the tables on his opponents - after calls by PASOK for a censure vote against his finance minister - by challenging Parliament to hold a confidence vote in his government on Sunday.

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New law on organ donors

A major change to the law on organ donations will be introduced by the end of the month, it was revealed yesterday, which will automatically make everyone...

Greek judges to school Turks

Greece committed itself yesterday to helping Turkey fulfill one of the criteria it must meet before joining the EU - by agreeing to start training Turkish judges...

Police to curb data doctoring

Top officials from the Greek police and Public Order Ministry are to cooperate in cracking down on an apparent trend by police officers to doctor crime statistics...

Hope for a sludge solution

A ray of light in the dispute over the disposal of thousands of tons of treated sewage at the Ano Liosia landfill appeared yesterday when local officials were impressed...

Barroso sails through Latsis yacht censure

STRASBOURG (AFP) - European Commission head Jose Manuel Barroso yesterday survived a censure motion against him that arose from a holiday he spent on...

IN BRIEF

Consumers advised to return Apple goods due to 'risk of catching fire' : The Development Ministry yesterday urged consumers...

Youths target police in Exarchia : A group of five hooded youths hurled Molotov cocktail bombs at a police van parked...

Humanitarian permit : A Brazilian woman living in Lesvos with her 6-year-old daughter, who is suffering from leukemia, was yesterday issued...

Greek-US ties : Foreign Minister Petros Molyviatis yesterday received Archbishop Demetrios of America in Athens...

Cypriot property : Britain's Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Douglas Alexander yesterday warned...

Detox programs : The state Organization Against Drugs (OKANA) is opening a new detoxification center on Corfu...

Close shave : An army sewage truck lies upside down after narrowly avoiding crashing into a gas station...

Fraudsters caught : Three women who allegedly posed as nuns in order to sell fake icons...

Bootleg DVDs : Around 6,500 were confiscated from the warehouse...


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Unproductive polarization The doomed efforts of Socialist party leader George Papandreou in Parliament yesterday to polarize the domestic political climate in a bid to rally PASOK's fighting forces was a sorry sight. Papandreou's clumsy initiative to propose a vote of no confidence against National Economy and Finance Minister Giorgos Alogoskoufis backfired when, in a deft move, Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis countered the motion by calling a vote of confidence in his conservative government.

COMMENTARY

Strange alliances The public has watched in wonder the past few days while as many as four different versions of PASOK have emerged under the media glare. As the government soldiers on with structural reforms, the opposition Socialists are split sharply between «liberals» and protectors of social welfare. It is unfair to accuse George Papandreou of standing paralyzed as his party gets Balkanized into a tapestry of rival fiefdoms. At the recent PASOK convention, the Socialist chairman actually condemned statism.

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